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Excerpt from The History and Present State of the Town of Newburyport
The history of a single town must, of necessity, consist chiefly of local incidents, and information of limited range. But however narrow the scope of such a work, it ought, being wholly domestic in its nature, to contain matters of interest to ourselves at least; and the author expects nothing more from the result of his Iabor. - And in reference to this point, he would repeat the remarks, which he formerly made in ah. Nmmoing his design. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
